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Nearly a half-hour after Nikolas Cruz dropped his rifle and fled Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police thought they were seeing him live on security cameras, still in the building. They were actually seeing images tape-delayed.

The Women of Syria dinner will be held Friday, Feb. 23, at the Broward Center, during the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, an event that will pair top chefs Alon Shaya and Ingrid Hoffmann with Syrian refugees who belong to cooking clubs in Miami and Denver.

Sports

They call to Tiger Woods, but even they must know they’re calling to a different man. An older man. A more fragile man. A man with flaws and warts and things he’s trying to master, if he ever can. And that’s just his golf game. “Welcome back, Tiger!” they say on Wednesday’s pro-am for the Honda...

Clarity continues to come in limited doses for the Miami Heat. So a week since playing their most recent game all that was available Wednesday from coach Erik Spoelstra was this: Rodney McGruder might play in Friday's game against the New Orleans Pelicans and Kelly Olynyk most likely will not. ...

Cameron Maybin is a Marlin again. Miami signed the 30-year-old outfielder to a one-year deal, the team announced Wednesday, an early-spring addition that gives the Marlins much-needed stability in the outfield and a veteran presence in what is expected to be a young clubhouse. The deal is worth...

Business

A top executive of a Boca Raton financial services firm is leading a proposed class-action lawsuit that alleges he and other investors were deceived by a Chicago-based fund management firm that lost 80 percent of its value. The LJM Preservation and Growth Fund, trading under the symbol LJMIX, failed...

Uber is rolling out a new, cheaper ride-sharing service in South Florida, but you may have to walk or wait a little when using it. Beginning Thursday, the San-Francisco based company is launching Express Pool, a lower-cost service for customers who don’t mind carpooling with strangers and beginning...

Priceline is changing its name and there will be no negotiation. Apologies to former pitchman William Shatner. The Priceline Group, which operates travel aggregating websites Priceline.com and Booking.com, is changing its corporate name to Booking Holdings effective immediately, the company announced...

Edible Arrangements has filed a federal lawsuit against Google alleging that its business has been damaged by competitor ads that appear toward the top of the results page. According to The (Norwalk, Connecticut) Hour, the lawsuit states that Google's placement of ads in top ranking locations throughout...

Lifestyle

Stephen Colbert would like to change the voting age. "Until we do something about guns, you can't vote if you're over 18," he said Tuesday night on "The Late Show." His quip references the campaigns for stricter gun control carried out by high schoolers in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were...

Oprah Winfrey has joined George and Amal Clooney in pledging to donate $500,000 to the March for Our Lives, a demonstration to advocate for stronger gun control after the school shooting in Parkland. “George and Amal, I couldn’t agree with you more,” Winfrey wrote on Twitter. “I am joining forces...

Growing up in the Florida Keys, Chris Noble swam, caught lobsters and played basketball and baseball. That outdoor life may have provided good training for the castaway life on CBS’ “Survivor.” “I grew up on an island so if I'm one of the few that can get his own catch and get his own water [which...

Find inspiration to create a backyard paradise during this year’s Secret Garden Tour, sponsored by the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club. The ninth annual self-guided tour, set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 24, will feature six homes in exclusive neighborhoods. “We like to add something new to our tour each...

Movie fans may best remember Jonathan Lipnicki as the adorable kid with the spiky blond hair who spouted funny one-liners in the 1996 movie “Jerry Maguire.” Lipnicki continued acting throughout his childhood and now into adulthood, having starred in two “Stuart Little” movies and other films, theater...

Travel

If you wants to see the redhead in her classic role, you may be running out of time. Previously announced changes appear to be coming soon to the Pirates of Caribbean ride at Walt Disney World. Last summer, it was announced that a scene in the longtime Magic Kingdom attraction would get a makeover....

The 10th Annual Downtown Food & Wine Fest will be showcasing Orlando restaurants along with 50 wines along Lake Eola on Robinson Street this weekend. The event will be held from noon to 9 p.m. on Feb. 24 and from noon to 7 p.m on Feb. 25. Participating restaurants include Four Rebels American Taco...

North Florida is rife with options for outdoor enthusiasts and Tallahassee is a great place for your adventure base camp. Whether it’s diving into the state’s deepest freshwater spring, checking out the state’s tallest waterfall or trekking through the state’s only guided cave system, there are...

Florida once again is home to the best beach in the U.S., with the title heading back to Clearwater Beach coming in at No. 1 in the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards. The Pinellas County beach won the accolade in 2016, but dropped to No. 4 last year as Siesta Beach down near Sarasota took the...

Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line is offering free cruises to celebrate its new ship sailing out of the Port of Palm Beach in April. The Deerfield Beach-based cruise line is offering the buy-one-get-one free offer for bookings made by Feb. 28 on 2-day voyages to Freeport in Grand Bahama Island aboard the...

Nation & World

Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen security, students and parents appealed to President Donald Trump on Wednesday to set politics aside and protect America's school children from the scourge of gun violence.

Doctors in Syria's rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus said Wednesday they were unable to keep up with the staggering number of casualties, amid a ferocious bombing campaign by government forces that has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds...

Seated between teenage survivors of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office listening session Wednesday that arming teachers and posting gun-toting veterans in schools could deter or stop school shooters. His comments came during an emotional meeting that...

In a wave of demonstrations reaching from Arizona to Maine, students at dozens of U.S. high schools walked out of class Wednesday to protest gun violence and honor the victims of last week's deadly shooting in Florida. The protests spread from school to school as students shared plans for their...

A request by Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Legislature to stop a new congressional map from being implemented is now in the hands of the nation's highest court. The filing made late Wednesday asks Justice Samuel Alito to intervene, saying the state Supreme Court overstepped its authority...

Opinion

Until now, I was unable to identify that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach when there was yet another mass shooting in our country. Now I know the feeling is shame. Shame on my generation for letting our elected officials kowtow to special interest. Shame on us for not sharing the knowledge...

An unthinkable act of violence has unraveled the lives of the people of Parkland, devastating families, friends and an entire community. For everyone impacted, their lives are forever changed. The children, teachers and coaches who lost their lives will be missed and mourned — every day. Their...

Of all the tweets from the Twitter diary of President Donald Trump, the Mad Tweeter, this is the one I’ll never get over: “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian...

The conversations I had with the victims and first responders in the wake of last week’s shooting in Parkland still haunt me. My heart breaks for those who were gunned down by this mad man. It is a loss that will torment the families for the rest of their lives. It will torment all those who witnessed...

Health

Pornography is being declared a health risk by the Florida Legislature. The state's House of Representatives approved the resolution by a voice vote Tuesday, despite some members asking why the topic is being taken up at this time. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Ross Spano, who is running...

With the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, parents and children throughout South Florida are dealing with a frightening new reality. Fears that might have seemed distant are now on our doorstep, and parents need to prepare to help their children process them, said Linda...

The first treatment to help prevent serious allergic reactions to peanuts may be on the way. A company said Tuesday that its daily capsules of peanut powder helped children build tolerance in a major study. Millions of children are allergic to peanuts, and some may have life-threatening reactions...

Uncertainty has a tight grip on my throat today. The unknown, always lurking, is now an intruder pounding on my door. It's in my yoga class, where the teacher uses falling leaves to talk about how "uncertainty and impermanence are part of the life cycle." It's in my mailbox, where a catalogue from...

Cheers to life — seriously. When it comes to making it into your 90s, booze actually beats exercise, according to a long-term study. The research, led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas, tracked 1,700 nonagenarians enrolled in the 90+ Study that began in 2003 to explore impacts...